Face facts

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

The legendary Creme de la Mer has introduced a new Lifting Contour Serum for the face and neck to its range. This sculpting product claims to give skin a tighter feeling from the first touch and helps to define and re-shape the look of contours, significantly transforming the skin’s appearance.

Wiping away make-up

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

The daily routine of taking make-up off at the end of a long day or an even later night often has us reaching for wipes whether to use with our favourite cleanser and toner or on their own.

Try something different this Easter

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

Have you ever wanted to go hiking in Italy’s stunning Apennines? If the answer is yes, then Into the West Adventures has the perfect trip going to the Sibillini Mountains from April 17 to 24. This mountain chain lies in the heart of Italy and Into the West is giving you the chance to explore this idyllic region and walk its mountain trails, all while enjoying local cuisine and hospitality.

Is your thyroid killing your weight loss and energy?

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

Nothing affects your health and weight loss like low thyroid function. It drastically limits your energy and ages you well beyond your years. It can mean you are operating at 50 per cent of normal power, mentally and physically. It makes weight loss almost impossible because you burn 400 or 500 calories less than normal per day. It can limit or stop your weight loss no matter how much dieting or exercise you do.

Results made easier at the Coast Club

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

Set on the Connemara coast overlooking Galway Bay, the Coast Club Leisure Centre is the ideal place if you want to improve physical fitness, pamper yourself, or simply escape the pressures of modern life. The club is packed full of activities and services that make it a pleasure to visit for both young and old. Opening at 6.30am, the Coast Club can accommodate all you early birds.

Quality dental care at a reasonable price at Rdent

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

Rdent is a new state-of-the-art dental surgery recently opened in Galway Shopping Centre on the Headford Road, providing a high standard of cosmetic and general dentistry at reasonable prices.

A healthier you with Health and Herbs

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

Health and Herbs is an integrated health clinic and herbal dispensary situated at 9 Sea Road in Galway. It was founded by Dr Dilis Clare in 1999, who is the only GP in Ireland also qualified in herbal medicine.

It's all a matter of taste

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

Restaurants and pubs in Loughrea have a fair selection of good quality meals using locally sourced ingredients and pub snacks. The hotels too have locally sourced cuisine on the menu with great local lamb and beef farmed nearby. As in any sizeable town there are, of course, takeaways offering fast food, fish and chips, Indian, and Chinese. For something a cut above you cannot go wrong with the pizza and pasta at il Porcetto from the affordably priced menu. The Hungry Bookworm, a lovely eclectic cafe and wine bar where you can enjoy variations on classic dishes while also perusing the literary classics, is well worth exploring too.

Delicious food for all tastes at Taste Matters

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

Taste Matters opened in Loughrea in November 2010 with the aim of serving honest, good, food in a casual and friendly setting.

Brendan Loughnane Butchers for quality and value

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

Brendan Loughnane is very experienced in the meat business, and comes from a family with a long tradition in the industry.

The view from the distillery, c1885

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

Towards the end of last year, we featured a series of articles on the building that is now occupied by the students’ bar in NUIG. The building started as a jute bag factory, then was converted to a bonded warehouse for Persse’s Distillery, later became the National Shell factory during World War I, was occupied by the 17th Lancers and the 6th Dragoon Guards, before being converted into the ammunitions factory known as IMI.

Hollywood came to Galway

Thu, Feb 06, 2014

The renowned film actor, and patron of the Galway Huston School of Film, Anjelica Huston, was born in Los Angeles on July 8 1951. The news of her arrival was promptly cabled to the post office of Butiaba, in western Uganda. Two days later a barefoot runner bearing a telegram finally arrived at Murchison Falls, on the Nile, deep in the heart of the Belgian Congo, where The African Queen was being filmed.

Get ready for spring by taming your wardrobe

Thu, Jan 30, 2014

The arrival of spring brings new season collections and the chance for a wardrobe update. There are easy steps to tame your closet and create flattering, practical, looks for everyday and special occasions. Follow these key tips to update your wardrobe for the months ahead.

Galway’s Quincentennial, 1984

Thu, Jan 30, 2014

On January 1 1984, President Patrick Hillery officially launched the Quincentennial, a year long celebration of 500 years of civic independence unique in western Europe. In 1484, a number of Galwegian merchants persuaded King Richard III to grant the city a charter which made the town a mayoral city. In the same year Pope Innocent VIII granted them the power to nominate their own warden and priests.

The realities of War

Thu, Jan 30, 2014

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,

Louis Copeland Galway sale ends this weekend with fifty per cent off lines

Thu, Jan 30, 2014

Louis Copeland, the menswear specialist located on Merchants Road, concludes its winter sale this weekend with 50 per cent off all casual lines and coats this Thursday to Saturday.

Ditch the razor, start laser

Thu, Jan 30, 2014

Now even more affordable

Forty per cent of women feel nervous letting a handyman in

Thu, Jan 30, 2014

Forty per cent of women would feel some degree of apprehension letting a handyman or tradesman into their homes, according to a new poll from AA Home Insurance. In comparison, 20 per cent of the men polled said they would have cause for concern.

Out of the Chi pan...

Thu, Jan 30, 2014

Since 1997, Da Tang Noodle House on Middle Street had served the people of Galway with thousands of steamy bowls of comforting noodles, dumplings, and legendary spicy salad. But Da Tang hung on the shoulders of an individual and when the time came for him to retire, Da Tang retired also. Their sister business, Chi Asian Take-away, a little takeaway in Westside, took over the space in the middle of November. Chi promises healthy convenient food choices using locally sourced fresh ingredients. Chef Andy Bandara uses the highest-quality local produce to create Asian dishes from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, China, and Vietnam. Known for good food, great flavours, and a mean nasi goreng, how does this takeaway translate into a sit-down restaurant?

Walkers invited to sample the thrills and beauty of Europe and Africa

Thu, Jan 30, 2014

Have you ever dreamed of walking the Camino or climbing Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain? Why not make 2014 the year that you do it?

Run by avid hiking enthusiast Mark Reynolds, Into the West Adventures provides hillwalking and trekking holidays in the west of Ireland and abroad. From the stunning beauty of the islands off our west coast, to the Camino in Spain, and the Monti Sibillini National Park in Italy, Into the West Adventures has a great selection of trekking trips in Ireland, Europe, and Africa. It has organised hugely successful treks to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania (on a lot of walkers' bucket lists) and to the Simien Mountains in Ethiopia.

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